Noon Start Time For Day 2 Of The WSOPE Main Event!
Welcome back to Day 2 of Event #11: €10,350 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, the final bracelet event of 2017. There currently have been 490 entries registered but more are expected as the registration and reentry period is open until the start of today which is at noon local time.
Out of those 490 entries, 335 have made it through to Day 2 with Markus Dürnegger as the chip leader with 246,200 chips. Second in the chip counts is Pierre Neuville with 239,000 chips that he collected on Day 1a. Closing out the top three is Henry Tran, the chip leader of Day 1b with 224,700 chips. They will all be looking to be the ninth WSOPE Main Event Champion.
But there will be other players looking to set new records like Phil Hellmuth, Adrian Mateos and Kevin MacPhee. They will want to be the first two-time winner of the WSOPE Main Event bracelet. Or Ryan Riess who will be looking to becoming the second player to win both the WSOP and WSOPE Main Event like Hellmuth has already done.
Past World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Winners
| Year | Location | Winner | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | London | Annette Obrestad | £1,000,000 |
| 2008 | London | John Juanda | £868,800 |
| 2009 | London | Barry Shulman | £801,603 |
| 2010 | London | James Bord | £830,401 |
| 2011 | Cannes | Elio Fox | €1,400,000 |
| 2012 | Cannes | Phil Hellmuth | €1,022,376 |
| 2013 | Paris | Adrian Mateos | €1,000,000 |
| 2015 | Berlin | Kevin MacPhee | €883,000 |
Structure
Today the players will be playing 6 levels of 90 minutes each. A 20-minute break will take place after each level with a 90-minute dinner break after Level 10.
Players that have been eliminated once over the past two days can choose to reenter before the start of today. Registration will also be open until then. The tournament will continue until a winner has been declared on Friday, November 10th. Stay tuned to PokerNews as we work towards crowning a new WSOPE Main Event champion!
| Level | Duration | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 90 minutes | 400 | 800 | 100 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 8 | 90 minutes | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 9 | 90 minutes | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 10 | 90 minutes | 800 | 1,600 | 200 |
| 90-minute break | ||||
| 11 | 90 minutes | 1,000 | 2,000 | 300 |
| 20-minute break | ||||
| 12 | 90 minutes | 1,200 | 2,400 | 400 |